Someone Out There

7digitalWhat we said:When Rae Morris made the prestigious BBC Sound of 2015 longlist, she was perhaps best known for her beguiling vocals and atmospheric, low-lit pop. Collaborations with Bombay Bicycle Club and a dusky debut album saw the artist become part of a certain British school of low-key but swooningly emotive art pop (see also: Tom Odell), but on album two she’s stepped things up a notch. While Someone Out There still has delicate ballads, the record finds Morris channelling an inner-Scandipop goddess via, dare we say, Björk. Angular, weird synths that cascade euphorically, with vocals that contort exquisitely, this is an album that places Rae Morris firmly away from the middle of the road, and instead on the cutting-edge of entrancingly weird but palatable pop.